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ny21
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 Tue, Jul 25 2006, 4:09 pm
Name things only a person growing up in a jewish home might know.
1. You can understand yiddish but you cant speak it.
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binah918
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Tue, Jul 25 2006, 5:01 pm
Kinda related to the thread...
English Words you only know due to your Jewish Education (www.bangitout.com)
Libation
Winnowing
Usury
Concubine
Cubit
Eunuch
Abomination
Cud
jubilee
brings down (what Rashi does)
consecrate
dowry
heifer
hold (maintain the opinion)
incumbent (chayav)
leprosy
lovingkindness
parable
pestilence
quail
Exilarch (Raish Galusa)
firmament
gird (as in "gird thy loins")
loins (see above)
Tractate
Blasphemy
Proselyte
Cistern
Lamentation
covenent
Tabernacle
Noahide
Sheaves
Spelt
Altar
Heretic
leaven
Tithes
prostrate (yourselves before G-d)
conjugal (rights, in the Ketuba)
phylacteries
diaspora
responsa
liturgy
fruitful ("be fruitful and multiply")
Thrashing (goes with winnowing)
Shankbone
Handbreadth
Gregorian
Carob
Lots (as in lottery draw lots)
Warp and Whoof
Peddler
betrothed
“lest”
Viceroy ( as in Yosef was, over Egypt)
relations (in the less commonly used sense)
dovecote
Frankensense (however you spell it)
gored (as in an ox gored a cow)
citron
golem
shard (as in a shard of pottery)
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carrot
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Tue, Jul 25 2006, 5:49 pm
That's really funny Binah!
(I'm wondering which is the "less commonly used sense" of relations?)
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Ruchel
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Wed, Jul 26 2006, 3:30 am
zah gezint (when you sneeze), and what momoftwins said 
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